Annotation:Lochiel's Return

Find traditional instrumental music



X:1 T:Lochiel's Return M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel region, B:south Ulster) K:Ador gf|eA A/A/A e2 dc|BGdG Bcdg|ea...



LOCHIEL'S RETURN. Irish, Reel (cut time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Lochiel's Return" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster[1]. Donnellan's reel seems based on the Scottish "Lochiel's Rant," clearly cognate in the first strain. The second strains of the tunes are more dissimilar, yet retain relatedness to one another. Brendan Breathnach collected the title as "Lough Aisles Return."


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - Gerry O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 163, p. 89.






Back to Lochiel's Return

0.00
(0 votes)



  1. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.